Desktop based spam filters

[CJ]

Just wondering if anyone is using a desktop based spam filter in conjuction with Outlook? If so, I would appreciate your comments on effectiveness. I've used McAfee SpamKiller in the past and its not bad, I believe that an app called IHateSpam is supposed to be one of the better products available. Its got to a stage whereby 70% of all my POP3 based mail is junk and it will just get worse over time. We have an enterprise solution in work that deals with spam and viruses, looking at stats over time, approx 60% of ALL email we recieve is either junk, not good for bandwidth utilisation. Theres a lot to be said for outsourcing your company email with content scanning in mind....

CJ

[IrishPhoenix]

Have you enabled the Junk mail filter on Outlook? And downloaded the most recent update for the Junk Mail filter. I find that mine catches 95% of Junk also its already in place not mucking about with outside technology. I'm using office outlook version 2003 SP1

[CJ]

I'm using office outlook version 2003 SP1

I'm afraid I'm stuck with Outlook 2k which has a basic filter that you need to configure yourself from scratch, its not ideal....

CJ

[pergau]

Try http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ Spambayes is excellent at categorising spam - as long as you train it.

[CJ]

Try http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ Spambayes is excellent at categorising spam - as long as you train it.

Nice one pergau, I'l give it a go. The nice thing is that its opensource as well!

CJ

[pergau]

Thought you might appreciate that

[CJ]

I've had it running for 2 days now and a decent little app, so far, its catching most of the spam

CJ